Cover Image

My policeman /

Show other versions (1)

"It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his ey...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Bethan, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Vintage Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Gay men > Fiction.
Social history > Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Police > Fiction.
Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
Brighton (England) > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction.
Homosexuels masculins > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Histoire sociale > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Triangle (Relations humaines) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Années cinquante (Vingtième siècle) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
General.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Social history
Social conditions
Police
Nineteen fifties
Gay men
England > Brighton
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Gay fiction.
Domestic fiction.
General Fiction.
Description
Summary:"It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed." -- Back cover.
Item Description:"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Chatto & Windus." -- Title page verso.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Physical Description:342 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:9780099555254
0099555255